Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a verification system, which is designed to prevent the so-called email spoofing where an e-mail message can be sent from one address, but to seem as being sent from another, typically with the objective to fraud the recipient for some reason. When SPF protection is enabled for a domain name, an exclusive record is generated for it in the Domain Name System and all the DNS servers worldwide receive it. The record contains all email servers that are permitted to send legitimate messages from an e-mail address within the domain. When an e-mail is sent, the first DNS server it goes to verifies the SPF record and if the sending server is permitted, the message is forwarded to the targeted receiver. If, however, the sending server is not contained in the SPF record for the specified domain, the e-mail message will not be forwarded and it will be discarded. If you employ this solution, it will prevent third parties from sending spam messages which appear to have been sent by you.
SPF Protection in Cloud Web Hosting
The SPF protection feature is provided by default with each cloud web hosting plan that we offer and you are able to use it with ease so that you can secure the email addresses for any domain hosted in your account. The service is managed from the Emails section of our hi-tech, and easy to work with Hepsia Control Panel. What is needed to enable the protection is to type the IP of the e-mail server in addition to its hostname - mail.server.com, for example. As soon as the protection is active, only this server will be able to send emails from email addresses made under the domain name that you've selected. Your email addresses can be taken care of by some other provider, but in case that we handle them along with your site, you can activate an option for your email messages to be sent only if the domain features our MX records. This solution will provide you with superior protection as just our server will be approved to send out e-mails from your mailboxes and you'll have improved control. When you have any questions or in case you experience any kind of troubles with this particular service, you'll be able to contact our tech support crew at any time and they'll give you a hand in a timely manner.
SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The SPF protection feature is featured with all the semi-dedicated hosting packages, so in case you host your domains in an account on our cloud hosting platform, you will be able to activate this particular service effortlessly for all your domains. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with the semi-dedicated accounts, features a quite easy to work with interface, which means that you won't have to be proficient in the use of computers in order to secure your e-mails. You'll only have to type the hostname and the IP address of each mail server that you'd like to be authorized to send emails from your addresses and immediately after that the new record will be activated for the domain name that you've selected. As a further option, we will also allow you to limit your outgoing emails and secure your mailboxes even better by permitting email messages to be sent only if the domain name in question includes our MX records i.e. the e-mail messages for the domain should be taken care of on our end and not by a different provider. By doing so you'll have even superior control and there will not be any chances for someone to fake your emails for harmful uses.